UK start-up Faradair Aerospace has partnered with Honeywell and MagniX on development of its multirole Bio Electric Hybrid Aircraft, designed to carry 18 passengers or three LD3 cargo containers.
Competitors wasted little time taking advantage of the U.S. Commerce Department announcement that it had added Chinese drone manufacturer DJI to its export blacklist.
A bipartisan effort to fast-track new FAA certification and oversight mandates is using the emergency funding-focused omnibus bill to get the legislation into law, agreeing on new requirements targeting what the agency can delegate to manufacturers, emphasizing human factors reviews, and urging FAA to spearhead improvement of global pilot training.
Signature Aviation, a London-based private aircraft services provider, said it would accept a buyout offer from Blackstone should the investment company follow up with a firm offer at the $5.17 per share cash price set out in its proposal.
Jaunt Air Mobility has signed a memorandum of understanding with propulsion developer VerdeGo Aero to study a hybrid-electric version of Jaunt’s planned Journey urban air taxi.
Altitude Angel and Inmarsat have demonstrated a deployable UTM system that incorporates satellite communications to track drones flying beyond the visual range of an operator.
The FAA and the Kansas Department of Transportation have agreed to establish a flight corridor for testing civil supersonic aircraft, state officials announced Dec. 17.
Assuming a successful rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, business aviation activity is expected to reach “numbers never seen in the modern age of our industry” in 2021, according to a just-released forecast and white paper by Argus International.
The FAA, codifying a lesson learned from the Boeing 737 MAX saga, plans to use ad-hoc internal review boards to help validate work as during the aircraft certification process, administrator Steve Dickson said.
The U.S. State Department has approved the Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Italy of two special-mission versions of the Gulfstream G550 business jet configured for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR).
Startup ZeroAvia has raised $37.7 million in funding to develop a zero-emission hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion system to power 19-seat regional airliners.
Four and half years since the Brexit referendum and aerospace is no nearer to understanding what the UK’s future trading relationship with its nearest and largest trading partner will look like.
Air taxi startup Blade Urban Air Mobility will be taken over by a special purpose acquisition company, setting up what could become the first publicly traded electric-powered air vehicle service provider as the technology emerges this decade.
German air rescue service ADAC Luftrettung has reserved two VoloCity electric air taxis from Volocopter to prepare for operational emergency medical service tests of the piloted multicopters in 2023.
EHang has received an experimental flight permit in Austria allowing it to begin flight trials of the two-seat EH216 autonomous air vehicle with partner FACC.
South Korean automaker Hyundai has restated its ambition to dominate the global urban air mobility market and outlined plans to develop a family of passenger and cargo vehicles to be fielded beginning in 2026.
